Los Angeles ACM Chapter Wiki:About
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Purpose
The Wiki section of Los Angeles ACM's Web presence is meant to hold dynamic or collaborative content that may be subject to relatively frequent revision or discussion.
Please feel free to read any of the discussion pages on the site, which you can access by clicking on the "discussion" link at the top of each page.
If you are a chapter member, we'd love to have you add to any discussion -- simply request an account and we'll have you included in NO TIME!
See Also
For stable/permanent content, please visit LA ACM's top-level Web site at http://www.la-acm.org.
For time-based content, please visit LA ACM's blog at http://blog.acm.org/losangeles.
Using Wiki
Editing
It is expected that this Wiki will be used as a collaboration and information tool, and will work much like the way Wikipedia works. The idea is to collaboratively maintain the site, meaning any ACM member has the right to edit pages. This means that errors can be quickly fixed, but it also means that damage (either intentional or inadvertent) can be quickly repaired. A "wiki" such as this one automatically keeps a record of the history of every page, along with the dates of changes and the user who made them. Rollback is easy.
Remember that you can't "break" a Wiki site. Collaboration is encouraged; in fact, it's the whole point. So, find something that can be improved, whether content, grammar or formatting, and make it better.
There is an entire set of Help Pages as part of this Wiki site, but here are a few quick editing pointers:
- To edit a page, simply click on the "edit" tab at the top of the page.
- To enter text, just type the text into the edit box.
- Italics text is enclosed in sets of double single-quotes ( ''italics'')
- Bold text is enclosed in sets of triple single-quotes ('''bold''')
- Bold and Italics text is enclosed in sets of quintuple single-quotes ('''''bold and italic''''')
- Use an empty line to start a new paragraph. A single carriage-return will not create a new paragraph, but is simply "swallowed" much like in HTML formatting.
- Bulleted lists such as the one you are reading are created by simply placing a star and a space at the beginning of a line.
- Section headings are created by using "double equals" signs ( == Sample Heading == ). At least two are required. The more there are, the deeper the heading indentation level.
Navigation
Navigation in any Wiki site is done in the normal fashion for browsers -- click on the links. Each page can have as many links as needed. Each page can also have a table of contents which will be automatically created from the header and sub-header lines by including the phrase "__TOC__" on a line by itself. This is usually placed at or near the top of the page. Note the double underscore characters before and after the text. If there are section headers included on the page (by making use of the multiple equal signs) the TOC will usually be automatically generated.
Again, you can refer to the Help Pages for detailed information, but here are some important navigation tips:
- Creating a link to another ACM Wiki page is done by enclosing the page name and associated text inside double square brackets (like "[[Page_Name | Name of the Page]]" where "Page_Name" is the name of the page and "Name of the Page" is clickable text that displays). The vertical bar separates the link from the text. See the text in the first section above for an example.
- Creating a link to an external web page is done in a similar fashion. The difference is that single square brackets are used, and there is no vertical bar (like "[http://www.google.com Google it!]").
